Policy and Advocacy
Policy and Advocacy Links
- Handling Your Mental Illness at Work and School Information on ADA (the Americans with Disabilities Act), the affect of mental illness on work or schooling, coping, filing a complaint, question of the month.
- Mental Health Advocate Mental health resources, newsletter articles, links, personal accounts, stories, and news. We believe recovery is possible.
- Time Magazine: Mental Health Reform Article on mental health reform in the U.S. with links to related articles.
- Association for the Mentally Ill AMI is group facing the challenges of living with mental illnesses; schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, depression. Millions of people with mental illnesses have no place to develop their talents and abilities. Our purpose is to develop local clubhouses / dropin centres that provide welcoming places for fellowship and programs of therapeutic value. Canada.
- Advocacy Unlimited, Inc. Information and resources for persons with mental health disabilities. Also an educational program for mental health advocacy skills.
- Medscout Mental Health Links and material regarding mental health issues, mental health associations and organizations, public health and special topics (such as suicide and substance abuse).
- Suicide Malpractice for Defendants Defendants are invited to this site to help their attorneys strengthen their defense expert witness testimony with fuller, modern, multi-factorial view of the causes of suicide. If clearly explained, juries may render more realistic decisions and hopefully eliminate all such future lawsuits.
- Mental Health Consumer Net Connections By and for consumer/survivors living in British Columbia, Canada, the site is intended as an informational and referral resource for consumers within the province and beyond.
- National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse helps connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and offers expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
- GIDreform.org - Challenging Psychiatric Gender Stereotypes GIDreform.org is a resource for all who advocate reform of the psychiatric classification of gender diversity as mental disorder.
- The National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, Inc. Advocating for mental health patients and professionals via educating the general public about good mental health care and by standing up to fight managed care's abusive practices.
- The Skeptical Psychiatrist Reviews and commentary on current psychiatric literature. It is critical of biological psychiatry, in a spirit of healthy skepticism.
- Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System One sixth of inmates have a mental illness, but do not receive treatment because facilities are over-crowded and under-staffed.
- Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health Report of the Surgeon General's Conference on Children's Mental Health: A National Action Agenda. This report was prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services in collaboration with the Department of Education and the Department of Justice. It is an outgrowth of the Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health which was released in December, 1999.
- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General," which is the first Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, asserts that mental illness is a critical public health problem that must be addressed by the Nation.
- dotCOMsense The American Psychological Association (APA) provides guidelines on how to protect individual privacy and assess the credibility of mental health information found on the Internet.
- Public Policy Advocacy - (American Psychiatric Association) Public Policy Advocacy contains a search feature and news briefs on mental health policy.
- The Coalition of Voluntary Mental Health Agencies New York Citys advocacy organization for community mental health, representing a network of over 100 non-profit, community-based mental health agencies.
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